AuthorTopic: Can't get video4fuze to run on VL7 a4 (Read 2246 times)

I have a great need to get video4fuze working. I need it in order to turn videos into a format my Sansa Fuze will recognize. Sansa has a Windows only media converter but I can't install it--a problem reported by many users. video4fuze is supposed to do the same job, and remarkably, it is supposed to work in Linux. It runs with python. I downloaded the source and it is ready to work once you expand the tar.gz file and confirm that you have the needed dependencies. I was lacking fuzemux but I downloaded the source and did a quick and easy compile with configure-make-make install.

I needed PyQt, which was not in the VL7 repo, so I downloaded it from VL6 (/testing, I think). To start video4fuze, you typepython video4fuze.pywat the prompt in the video4fuze directory. When I do that, I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "video4fuze.pyw", line 23, in <module> from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplicationImportError: No module named PyQt4.QtGuiWhat now? I've tried symlinks in /usr/lib to usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so and done ldconfig, but I still get the same error message.--GrannyGeek

I decided to see if I could get video4fuze to run on my VL6 Light laptop. Success! PyQT was already there. I easily compiled fuzemux. It's small and compiles very quickly. I had to install qt 4.5 from the vl6 /testing repo. I checked messages here first to make sure I wouldn't destroy my system by installing qt4.5.

After I got the dependencies in place, I ran video4fuze successfully and it has just finished converting a movie. I haven't yet moved it to my Sansa Fuze, so I don't know whether I got the results I wanted. Fingers crossed!

I would still like to get video4fuze working on my VL7 a4 machine. --GrannyGeek

The converted movie was perfect! I've started watching it on my Sansa Fuze. I also successfully converted and loaded some photos. I had previously loaded MP3 music files. They don't need conversion.

The movie is Reefer Madness, a cult classic. It's hilarious in the manner of movies like Island Claws and Plan 9 from Outer Space. I love bad movies.

Since I now have a video4fuze that works, I think I'll abandon more efforts to get it working on VL7 unless somebody comes up with a way I can fix the python and PyQt problems. Maybe things will be better in the next VL7 release.--GrannyGeek